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Toward an urban ecology is an excellent book that highlights an oft forgotten yet critical aspect of urban design landscape architecture and ecological urbanism which is advocacy. Part monograph part manual part manife sto toward an urban ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental urban and social issues as separate domains and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology. Toward an urban ecology features numerous projects and select research from scape and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environmentkate orff 2017 macarthur fellow has an optimistic and transformative message about our world we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably . Start by marking toward an urban ecology scape landscape architecture as want to read start your review of toward an urban ecology scape landscape architecture write a review dec 04 2018 matthew talbert rated it liked it. Part monograph part manual part manife sto toward an urban ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental urban and social issues as separate domains and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology